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SHOTS FIRED! (Property owner reported to have fired gun in air near Camp Cindy)
Lone Star Iconoclast ^ | 10:15am (Central) August 14, 2005 | Deborah Mathews - reporting for The Iconoclast

Posted on 08/14/2005 9:36:45 AM PDT by tgslTakoma

Camp Casey is becoming very organized, with how-to signs placed about. Ann Wright said, "That's what we are trying to do."

Let me read you the schedule posted on a tree: "9:15 camp meeting; 10 a.m. inter-faith service, 10:30 a.m., "Food-Not-Bombs Breakfast at Peace House," and....

"Wait! Someone is firing a gun. (pause). He fired it into the air about five times. He appears to be a local inside the fence line on private property. Now he has thrown what looks like a shotgun into the front seat of a pickup, and he's stomping off out of sight. I wonder where he went.

"Now he's coming back out. I'm out here standing on the road. He's got a no parking sign in his hand, walking toward his fence. I'm going to go try to talk to him. I've got to hang up."

(three minutes later)

I went over and talked to the man. He is Larry Mattlage, who says he is on his property and just posted a no-parking sign.

"We're going to start doing our war and it's going to be underneath the law," he told me. "Whatever it takes. So y'all go find another place to do whatever you do. 'Cause this is our front yard and back yard."

I asked, "Do you mean the protestors?"

Wait.....now there's some Secret Service and cops. I'm going to get closer to hear what they're saying. People in bullet-proof vests are here now. Two Secret Service agents are now walking up his driveway towards his house, with Mr. Mattlage. A member of the Sheriff's Department has arrived. Mr. Mattlage is waving his arms now. All of them are now walking back this way.

Now they are between the lane and the house. He's at the fence now. Let me record what they are saying. I'll call right back.

Editor's Note: Permission is granted to reprint the information and photographs appearing in this feature about Cindy Sheehan's visit to Crawford and activities at The Peace House. Attribution would be appreciated. — W. Leon Smith, publisher, The Lone Star Iconoclast


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; cindysheehan
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To: deport

Oh I got it to play on quicktime.

I like this fellow Larry. He squarly asked the media what they were going to do about his rights being trampled.
Told em..If I could get The President and sheehan over here I dont think anything would be resolved, meanwhile Im being intruded upon...and what are you folks going to do about it?

There was no answer


321 posted on 08/14/2005 1:07:45 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: deport

I'll convert it to WMA really fast too... for those on dialup...


322 posted on 08/14/2005 1:09:31 PM PDT by plewis1250
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To: BallandPowder

At a rate of fire of $10 a second, it is hard to beat that kind of fun.


323 posted on 08/14/2005 1:10:50 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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To: mylife
Ya prolly should try shouldering the weapon to avoid that L0L

When I went through Basic in 1965 we were required to fire the M14 with the stock firmly planted in our crotch – it was to get us over the fear of recoil.
It worked. Hold it in tight enough there’s no pain, but don’t hold it loosely.
324 posted on 08/14/2005 1:11:35 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: ReeWalker

Very few feedlots around here. Mostly rangefed cattle etc.
We raise a lot of wheat and soybean also.

If you like feedlots you would love the area up around Amarillo, Dumas and Herford.
You nasal cavities would certainly be opened up. </grin


325 posted on 08/14/2005 1:11:36 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: Zacs Mom

It's really pretty simple. If the protestors enter private property, they should be arrested, quickly. However, the locals, and I do sympathize with them (see 299), are just going to have to grin and bear the presence of the protestors when they're not breaking any laws.


326 posted on 08/14/2005 1:12:27 PM PDT by Melas (The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
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To: ace2u_in_MD
No matter what, HE endangered everyone around him, the protestors as well as the Secret Service...

If you aim a gun in a certain direction, the bullets won't harm anyone. Trust me on this.

327 posted on 08/14/2005 1:13:47 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

"the Peace House is some sort of Lefty gathering place in Crawford. I think everyone is furnished a bed to crawl under."

How about a rock to slither under?


328 posted on 08/14/2005 1:14:35 PM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: plewis1250; All
Here is the 2nd tape in WMA format:
http://www.teenfellowship.net/freerepublic/mattlage2.wma
329 posted on 08/14/2005 1:15:52 PM PDT by plewis1250
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To: mylife

I finally got it to play this attempt... Ol' Larry doesn't mind giving them a good piece of his mind.... Asking the press....

....
What are you going to do about it?.... You are part of the problem also.....


330 posted on 08/14/2005 1:18:18 PM PDT by deport (If you want something bad enough, there's someone who will sell it to you. Even the truth your way.)
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To: R. Scott

im tuckin that rascal into my right thigh well away from the troops if you know what I mean L0L


331 posted on 08/14/2005 1:19:25 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: deport

Oh he's a bit of a rambler and no politician ...but he wont be walked on L0L


332 posted on 08/14/2005 1:20:18 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: plewis1250

Thanks, that may help also. I finally got it to load and play. Don't know what was happening. I'm on cable and had no problems with the first tape.


334 posted on 08/14/2005 1:21:05 PM PDT by deport (If you want something bad enough, there's someone who will sell it to you. Even the truth your way.)
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To: plewis1250

Thanks for the link.
Finally got it to play and personally I think this man has more common sense than most anyone involved in this mess.


335 posted on 08/14/2005 1:28:42 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: hipaatwo
" I still think she has the right to speak even though she's a no good g-d damn anti-semetic bassturd."


lol ~ I guess I would agree with him! sheehan certainly has the right to be as stupid and as vocal as she wants.

I've no complaint that this idiot deems it appropriate and necessary to stand on the coffin of her dead son and berate this nation.

This is her insanity and, like the weird guy in the park with the panties on his head shouting biblical phrases, in a free country she has the right to act upon it as long as she doesn't pose a danger herself or others. (I think that's how it goes....isn't it?)

My complaint is with the fiction being created and disseminated about who this woman is and what she is doing.

My complaint is with sheehan cloaking herself in the mantle of "grieving mother" to fend off any and all criticism of her disingenuous crusade.

My complaint is with sheehan's attempt to include all of the families of all our fallen heroes in her denouncement of the war on Iraq.

My complaint is that sheehan is intentionally disrupting the lives of others in her effort to gain attention.

My complaint is with sheehan's seditious rhetoric and with the blatant hypocrisy of people who send hundreds of thousands of dollars in aid to the terrorists blaming my President for the murders these terrorist then commit!

Those are some of my complaints......not all, but some.

not that you asked...;^)

336 posted on 08/14/2005 1:30:43 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: 76834

This Larry guy is great! CNN just had him on for probably 5 minutes just letting him talk. He's done with this and so are his neighbors.


337 posted on 08/14/2005 1:31:37 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: mylife

We had no choice.


338 posted on 08/14/2005 1:34:52 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: jennyjenny

My impression.
He sure isnt scared to lay it out for you and tell you what he thinks.
Not going to be intimidated by anyone.

Talks straight and damm sure isnt mealymouthed


339 posted on 08/14/2005 1:35:51 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: tgslTakoma

I love Texas


340 posted on 08/14/2005 1:36:26 PM PDT by firebrand
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